Converting an image into a CNC cut involves preparing the image, tracing it into a vector format, defining toolpaths, and selecting material and machine settings for cutting. This process ...

So it is with [John Opsahl]’s Project Convert To Paint, a CNC painting ‘bot that ... of artistic implements. The images are converted from bitmap to vector format, and thence to gcode with ...

The result is RasterCarve, a web app that converts an image into a GCode that can be fed into a CNC machine. The motivation for this project was to learn how to do it, but also frustration at the ...